Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-11
NATIONAL AFFAIRS.
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charge, ard it is cheaper 10 pay express
charges even both ways than to establish
sub-treasuries. The suo-treasucy cities
have no advantages over others in the
distribution Of certificates Collec-
tons snd disbursements of reve.
nue. are made outside of sub-treas ury
cities with absolute safety, through over
40 national bank repositories. The
arguments made in favor of the locstion
of sub. treasures, continues the report,
might be made with greater force regard
ing many other cities where repositories
are located. II any new suO-treasury is
to be established and the convenience Of
the people considered, it had better be st
some other point. Louisville is not
no miles from the Cincinnati sub treas
ury, 2G5 from St. Louis and 303 from
Chicago. II there were any advantage
in having a sub-treasury at all, it ought
to be located at Atlantis, Nashville,
Chattanooga or Little Rock, ana if the
cOnyeniences of the government are to
be consideredb St. Paul, Minneapolis,
Omaha, Denver or Kansas City should
be selected rather than Louis
vile. If the amount of
customs duties collected be taken into
consideration some one of thirteen other
cities not now supplied with sub-treas-
uries should be selected, while Savannah,
Mobile and Galveston, from their situa-
ii On and distance from other sub-tIeaS-
uries, would seem TO have greater claims
than Louisville. Even ii the claim regard
ing the amount of internal revenue collect
ed be given weight, then Peoria, III, is
more entitled to it than Louisville. If the
claims of Louisville ere ADMITTED to be
good, it would be impossible to resist
those OF any of the other cities. The re-
port gives letter from Treasurer Jordan
saying the sub-treasury is notueeded, and
that il would cost from SIS, 900 TO $780, CO
year to run it with proper reference to
the safety of public money. There are,
he says, five sub-treasuries that could
be now dispensed with and the duties
attended to by banks. The five mention
ed are St. Louis, Baltimore, Cincinnati,
New Orleans snd Chicago.
TEXAS PosTA1 CHANGES.
Special to the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Feb. IO.-Pos.al changes
in Texas as follows were announced To-
day: New Office at Macedonia, BeXar
county, Mary Y. Meredith, postmistress.
Special service between Celeste aud
INiuESsOl, IluuI Guilty, ulSGpuhluGGb.
Railway Postal Service changes: Fort !
Worth and Galveston: Postal Clerk |
extends his run to begin at Gainesville, |
Tex, an increase in distance OF 7G miles, !
making the whole distance 4O3 miles, to |
take effect February IA, the line to be
known as the Gainesville and Galveston |
Railway Postoflice.
APPROVED BY. THE PRESIDENT.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 The President
has approved the army appropriation bill, !
the immediate transportation bill, the |
act for the erection Of a pubic building |
at Jefferson, Tex, and an act for the COM |
pletiOa of the public building at Santa |
Fe, N. NJ.
MISSISSIPPI RIVER IMPROVEMENT.
WASHINGTON, Feb. l0-The Senate |
committee on the improvement OF the
Mississippi river to-day gave hearing
to Captain John COwden on his plan for |
improving the Mississippi river by what |
is known as the Lake Borgue outlet pros
peCt. The committee determined to re-
port resolution for the appointment of
commission by the President to investi-
gate and make some recommendation |
with reference to q plan of imprOyept.
Senator Van Wyck was told to draft
q resolution in accordance with this de-
termination.
UNITED STATES PRISONS.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1O.-The judiciary
committee of the House to-day reported
adversely ard without other comment
than the recommendation that it do not
pass Representative Swinburne's bill for
the erection of a United States prison for
the confinement of United States prison
~ o ,hor 8 +baI
committee, however, unite in presenting
a long minority report recommending the
passage OF the bill. The report states
that tie bill bad the indorse-
ment Of the Attorney General,
who mas earnestly recommended
the establishment of such prison, and
nas so many good reasons therefore in
his annual report. The report points out
the evils connected with the contracting
of convict labor, and continues that the
sending of United States prisoners to
penal institutions not unCer direct con-
troll of the United States government, is
of no financial benefit to the government,
as it receives nothing IN return for the
labor, and results in frustrating the
designs of justice to make the
prisoners better men and law-obserying
citizens. The prisons of the country are
no longer reformatory institutions, but
money making concerns, and the designs
of the authorities of these institutions
seem to be to make them self-sustaining
at the cost of making the convicts hard
ened criminals. By the methods pro-
posed in the bill the great object of
justice would be better conceived in
making the prisons reformatories by
having men in charge whose object
would be to have The prisoners become
better men, rather than interested in the
amount of money they could realize from
the labor Of the prisoners, and who would
net be melted from personal motives to
have the prisoners upon their discharge
commit some ofense that would return
them to the institution, as is Sometimes
the case with parties interested IN some
of the prisons as now conducted. In
justice to the honest manufacturers and
as well as from considerations
of humanity to the prisoners themselves,
the establishment of one or more United
States prisons is demanded.
GOING TO CHICAGO.
WASHINGTON, Feb. l0.-Mrs. Logan
intends to start Tor Chicago next Satur-
day. While there she will take cut the
l ecessary papers for administering upon
her husbands estate, and will also decide